“The interview was used to promote terrorism and make threats to the government and people in Syria,”al-Jafari said, addressing a meeting of the UN Security Council in New York on Thursday.

Al-Jafari’s remarks came after the Qatari-funded television network broadcast the first part of an interview with al-Golani late on Wednesday.

“It is clear that the Qatari regime is seeking to clean up the image of the Nusra Front through this interview with the head of a terrorist group that has been blacklisted by the UN Security Council,” he added.